Tell the student that you'd like him to read the excerpt and figure out what the passage is about, who is speaking, why he is speaking, and to whom he seems to be addressing his words.
The team found the x-ray signals during this passage were about 100 times weaker than when other gas made a similar trek to a neutron star, the researchers reported here 11 January at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
So the passage is about moving from open space through smaller spaces.
"Because" reveals that the passage is about causal or explanatory relations.
"It" reveals that the passage is about at least one object that is not known to be a person.
"Marks the passage" is about motion, of course bespeaking a sort of fluid interconnectedness between different forms of the "same" (i.e., "homologous") part of different, yet "closely allied," species.
But this passage is not about words; ideas or stories.
Beyond the physical sensitivity of Kerry's fine-tuned prose — his acute alertness to the shifting elements of sight, sound, smell, and movement that compose his narrow riverine universe in the jungle — what is most striking about this passage is that so little of it is about him.
** Beyond the physical sensitivity of Kerry's fine-tuned prose his acute alertness to the shifting elements of sight, sound, smell, and movement that compose his narrow riverine universe in the jungle what is most striking about this passage is that so little of it is about him.
Make sure this passage is short; it should be about 5 minutes long and definitely no longer than 10 minutes.
